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Rethinking Compiler Design

by akg on 6/11/14, 2:40 AM with 4 comments

• by carterschonwald on 6/11/14, 4:59 AM

  Speaking as someone who (in some small way) helps with compiler dev, while a lot these ideas sound pretty cool, I can pretty comfortably say that these ideas would make compiler engineering even harder! (though I'd love to be proven wrong by some brave soul)

• by tempodox on 6/11/14, 11:31 AM

  Articles like this always make me wanna weep. Not because of their contents but because nobody bothered to put a date on (or more precisely, before) those thoughts. As it is, this article is only for archaeologists and historians who like to guess from when it might be. And the “last edited” date is no replacement or excuse.

• by taspeotis on 6/11/14, 3:50 AM

      last edited September 9, 2008

• by shin_lao on 6/11/14, 10:12 AM

    -  Compiler internals cleanly exposed
  

  This exists in clang!

  I'm not sure I get this one:

    -  Constancy as an attribute
  

  Does it mean read-only variables such as "const" variables in C/C++?